Foot and Fire

Humble Pie Gordon Ramsay Autobiography, 2006 Nice read. Written twelve years ago but still introduces Gordon Ramsay very well to those who seldom watches tv series but had been a follower for once by Masterchef US. Though I am an open hater of swearing as while they may represent hatred, jealousy, irritation, fear, anxiety, mood swings, etc to the speaker,  swearing does not communicate to the receiver the message well and they may be everything ill but then nothing. But I was surprised that I finished the not-so-lengthy fast-paced narrative of Ramsay who is fast-talking and known as ill-swearing cook in London. The book is filled with vulgar slangs and swears e.g. bollocks, arsehole, fuck, shag etc but then I kind of smile at them in the end. This is because I am reading, not hearing them. Anyway, I still can't believe it that I was hooked by the life story of Ramsay, a perfectionist in kitchen which explains why his swearing is a bad habit. His first TV series are live and ...

The French Gardener Santa Montefiore Fiction 407 pages paperback The novel started pretty slow as it necessarily exposes the main characters of the present time. I was almost ready to give up the book as a wrong choice when suddenly the time came for the exposure of the main characters of the past. From then on, the shift from present and past became a warm reading. This is understandable anyway because the author started the story in autumn. From there, the reading is ever-flowing like seasons indeed. Expect for summer endings for both past and present characters. Aside from the cottage garden which gives us insights as to the English flower culture with exploding colors of flowers as well as vegetation, the novel also led us to various explosions involving many shades of love, from mere lust to true love, from familial love to honoring love of one's self coming from the main characters up to the minute characters in the novel. Love indeed springs up from many wells. ...